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Cable motion capture and analysis based on optical tracking system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

Jingguo Ge  and
Hao Gu
Jingguo Ge*
Affiliation:
ABB Research Center-Mechatronics, Shanghai, postcode201319, China
Hao Gu
Affiliation:
ABB Research Center-Mechatronics, Shanghai, postcode201319, China
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
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Summary

As a fatigable part of industrial products, cable is a valuable research topic to predict the product lifetime. Since the cable fatigue is related to the bending radius in motion, this paper presents a cable motion capture and bending radius calculation method based on optical tracking system. In particular, a marker sorting algorithm is developed for further spline interpolation in cable motion tracking. The cable bending radius calculation precision is analysed as well. The Results show that the proposed method can successfully track cable motion with an acceptable error for cable lifetime prediction.

Keywords

Motion captureOptical trackingCablesIndustrial robots
Type
Articles
Information
Robotica , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , May 2015 , pp. 974 - 985
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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